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  • Randall Vagelos, MD

    Randall Vagelos, MD

    Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular)

    Current Research and Scholarly InterestsI. Congestive Heart Failure New Medical Therapies Prognostic Evaluation Selection for Cardiac Transplantation II. Screening for Myocardial Necrosis New ECG Monitoring Devices New Serum Markers III. Screening for CAD Patients Who Have Received Radiation Rx Diabetics Being Considered for Renal Transplantation
    IV. Advanced coronary and valvular disease, evaluationg candidacy for high risk interventions.

  • Sharif Vakili, MD, MBA, MS

    Sharif Vakili, MD, MBA, MS

    Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health

    BioSharif Vakili, MD, MBA, MS, (pronouns: he/him), is an internal medicine physician and educator. He practices at Stanford Los Altos Primary Care.

    Dr. Vakili has a background in chronic disease management and health systems delivery, believing strongly in a teamwork approach to patient care that empowers patients to navigate the health system as part of their clinical care.

    He is active in the research and business communities. His research has been in peer-reviewed journals including JAMA Network Open, the Annals of Emergency Medicine, Quality Management in Healthcare, and Journal of Clinical Rheumatology.

    Dr. Vakili is also the inventor of Remote Patient Intervention (RPI), a model of clinician-supervised AI care delivery first performed at Stanford during a clinical study published in JAMA Network Open.

  • Hannah Valantine

    Hannah Valantine

    Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular)
    On Leave from 09/01/2024 To 08/31/2025

    Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy lab is focused on understanding the mechanism mediating acute and chronic allograft failure, in particular on the role of microvascular injury in acute allograft failure and the mechanisms of mediating transplant coronary artery disease. 1. Role of microvascular injury in acute allograft failure.

  • Laurent D Valosek

    Laurent D Valosek

    Academic Staff - Hourly - CSL, Medicine

    BioMr. Valosek has 35 years of experience as an entrepreneur, educator and researcher. He was co-founder and CEO of Integrated Devices LLC, a wireless engineering consulting firm, Xistor Technology Development Corporation, a semiconductor intellectual property company, and Sophia Communications, a wireless technology development and wide area network service provider. He also co-founded a strategy and business development consulting firm, Lakshmi Technologies, with partners from the Boston Consulting Group and Deloitte, focused on providing services to early stage high technology companies. Mr. Valosek has extensive experience in the areas of strategy, planning, recruiting, training, business development and general management.

    In addition to his business expertise, Mr. Valosek has a long standing interest in the role of human development as it relates to health, education, organizational effectiveness and social transformation. He helped conduct NIH-funded research on meditation and heart health at the West Oakland Health Center and ADHD research with middle school students in the Albany Unified School District. He co-founded the Center for Wellness and Achievement in Education in 2007, for the purpose of providing evidence-based wellness programs to students, schools, school districts and other community organizations.

  • Anubodh Sunny Varshney

    Anubodh Sunny Varshney

    Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine

    BioDr. Anubodh Sunny Varshney is a Clinical Assistant Professor and Associate Director of the fellowship program in the section of Advanced Heart Failure, Transplant Cardiology, and Mechanical Circulatory Support at Stanford. In addition to caring for patients with advanced heart disease, he is also an Investigator in the Cardiovascular Outcomes, Policy, & Implementation Research Group (https://www.copirgroup.com/) where he works to identify patient groups that have ongoing unmet medical needs, define benchmark outcomes that next generation therapies should improve upon, and understand factors that influence adoption of novel drug and device therapies.

    Dr. Varshney earned a BS in biomedical engineering from Washington University in St. Louis and an MD from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School. He completed residency in Internal Medicine and fellowship in Cardiovascular Medicine at Brigham & Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School and fellowship in Advanced Heart Failure, Transplant Cardiology, and Mechanical Circulatory Support at Stanford University.

    Dr. Varshney also has experience advising multiple medical device, drug, and digital health start-ups and currently serves as a Venture Advisor at Broadview Ventures, a philanthropically-funded, mission-driven investment organization that invests in early-stage companies developing technologies that have the potential to improve outcomes for patients with cardiovascular disease or stroke.

  • Elena Vendrame

    Elena Vendrame

    Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Infectious Diseases

    Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy research focuses on understanding the host-pathogen interactions. In particular I study the interaction between natural killer cells and HIV.